"Unachievable" Male Body Image?

Shit, I just want to have shoulders so wide I have to turn sideways to get through doors.

Have you tried this?

image

Didn’t work for me but figured I’d pass along.

image

I am trying gamma radiation treatment first

6 Likes

I think dialing in the dose response is tricky.
image

Good luck!

I though Tabata front squats come WITH gamma radiation?

I stood right next to Dillett outside of the Beacon Theater in Manhattan in the late 90’s, at the first Night of Champions I attended (highlight
of Spring for many years). Most of the pros of that era looked like a different species!

A family friend of mine competed against Tony Freeman in the NPC.

@blshaw that photo is altered. He got out of shape but he didn’t look that bad.

4 Likes

image

image

I agree. Here is the unedited.

Seems impossible that his arms not training and off the sauce would be that terrible given what he looked like on.

Right. I remember when that photo came out.
Some guys just move on from the gym.

1 Like

One again you and I are eerily alike.

Raging Radiation Monster + nerd. I am halfway there (nerd part).

Off topic - the new “Smashtronaut” series of hulk comics was great, but they are splitting the story into like three different series I have to go buy now.

1 Like

Wait a minute… so I shouldn’t believe everything I see on the internet? :laughing: Man I screwed that one up. Wait another minute… maybe my avatar photo is altered too and I’m also really bigger than that? Mind blown.

2 Likes

one thing that’s left out of the discussion on male body image. people think the male body actually matters as long as you aren’t obese it really doesn’t. can it be a bonus? 100% yes but your face matters so much more body barely factors in lol. they didn’t pick brad pitt, henry cavill, or chris hemsworth for their respective roles because they had some godlike physique they picked them because they have an attractive face.

I feel like your definition of “matters” hinges entirely on what other people think of yourself.

For me, that’s immaterial. My body matters because I want to look like an action figure.

1 Like

Your examples here make no sense at all. You would want to pick someone who got the type of roles that Pitt, Cavill, and Hemsorth get, who doesn’t have a really good body. Those guys all have great physiques, so we can’t sort out if it was the body or the face that got them the role.

My opinion, it was both body and face and the ability to act.

Micheal Keaton or Robert Pattinson would be examples you could use. Both played Batman, have pretty good faces, but not a spectacular bodies. Perhaps Bruce Willis fits here to. Not a terrible body on either (especially for their age groups), but not comparable to Hemsworth’s Thor.

I don’t see AAS as a possible option under the TREATMENT section. Strange.

Fig. 1. The increasing muscularity of boys’ action toys. Left panel: the 1982 G.I. Joe “Grunt” versus the 1997 G.I. Joe “Extreme”

Poor Grunt. Looks so puny.

2 Likes

In that regard, I wouldn’t say I have dsymorphia. I think I look awesome: I just want to look MORE awesome.

2 Likes

He has working hip, knee, and elbow joints though. I have some of these style GI Joe toys still from my younger days. They were selling G.I. Extreme at the time, but I actually didn’t care for those. Not as fun to play with. The old style had lots of cool accessories like missile launchers and vehicles. The flexible body of the old style made type of things possible. The extreme ones were really only good for posing.

1 Like

No worries, whatever works for you. Perhaps functional distortion is more applicable.

Amen, too bad those rubber bands have to go but an easy fix:

1 Like